Throughout the 1970s and '80s, playwright Sam Shepard was American theater’s tough guy. He fooled around with punk poet Patti ...

AN There’s a scene in The Right Stuff in which test pilot Chuck Yeager, having returned safely to earth after breaking the sound barrier for the first time ever, walks away from his wrecked ...

It’s disconcerting to see a general cry — especially one with four stars on his shoulders. But Lloyd W. “Fig” Newton — one of just seven African-Americans to wear four stars in U.S. military history — ...